Weekend Herb Blogging #145 – The Roundup

Weekend Herb Blogging is a food blogging event created by Kalyn from Kalyn’s Kitchen where each week food bloggers around the world post recipes about cooking with herbs and unusual vegetables or interesting ways to use vegetables, and it’s heading into year three of blogging. Last week the event was hosted by Divya from Dil Se, and this week I have the honor to be your host. Here are the entries, categorized by their main ingredient, and then by the time I got them mailed.

Susan from Food Blogga was the first to send me her entry. She used beautiful Big Rainbow, Green Zebra, and Brandywine baby heirlooms to make Penne with Fresh Ricotta and Baby Heirloom Tomatoes.

Tammy from FOOD ON THE FOOD made a perfect summer dish: Sungold tomatoes with queso fresco and marjoram.

Kalyn from Kalyn’s Kitchen came up with a colorful Vegan Tomato Salad with Cucumber, Avocado, Cilantro, and Lime.

Another beautiful summer salad – Heirloom Tomato Caprese Salad by Nate Lau from House of Annie.

Ning from Heart and Hearth serves us a popular Chinese dessert – Snow fungus with red ginseng.

Valentina from Trembom made Mixed mushrooms with cinnamon and lemon. She used 5 kinds of mushrooms in her dish. Heavenly!

Sue from Coffee & Cornbread made a dressing for her Mango and Romaine Salad with Dried Cranberries using ground coriander seeds.

Rachel from THE CRISPY COOK introduced a new ingredient to me – Lemon Balm and served Lemon Balm Iced Tea.

This banana flower is one of the main ingredients of Kilawing Puso ng Saging (Banana Hearts Kinilaw), a Filipino version of ceviche, made by Jude from Apple Pie, Patis, and Pâté.

Magpie from je le vous dirais keeps it simple. These Baby artichokes need only a little bit steaming!

These unusual Almond Croissants are made from leftovers. Did you know that the majority of dumped food can still be consumed? Dhanggit from Dhanggit’s Kitchen wrote a great post about this.

Another unusual ingredient comes from Cheryl from Gluten Free Goodnes – Ground Cherry (Cape Gooseberry, or Physalys).

A very informative post on English Apples comes from Nick Saltmarsh from The Tracing Paper.

Anna from Morsels & Musings brought these awesome Rose Apples from her trip to Thailand. She also promised she’ll show us some more treats she eat there, so make sure you visit her blog for more.

Katie from Thyme for Cooking, the Blog is a huge fan of olives. Of course, she send us an olive dish you can eat with almost anything – Olive and Shallot Relish.

And here is a smashing cocktail by Jerry from Jerry’s Thoughts, Musings, and Rants – Raspberry-Thyme Smash.

Natashya from Living in the Kitchen with Puppies prepared this exquisite Oven roasted tomatoes with thyme.

Hallo from Cook (almost) Anything at Least Once used blood oranges to make this beautiful Blood Orange Marmalade.

This hearty Corn almond soup is made by Christine from Kits Chow.

My entry – Peach & Poppy seed jam.

Thank you all for participating and hope you had as much fun as I did hosting. Thank you for this lovely event Kalyn!

Next week’s host is Srivalli from Cooking 4 All Seasons. If you’d like to participate, make sure you check out the new rules and send your entries to cooking4allseasons (at) gmail (dot) com.